It’s already impossible to talk to a person at the IRS. My friend is handling her father’s estate and found issues with several of his past tax returns resulting in the IRS owing the estate more than $200k. She got a tax attorney and started contacting them over a year ago. Her attorney has gone through various letters and other standard procedures and they will not ever respond in any way. If he requests a callback and gets one there’s a bot on the other end. The state is sending nastygrams about why the estate can’t be closed out after so long, because they can’t close it until these tax returns are resolved and refunded. If we’re required to pay taxes, the entity administrating them must be functional - this is simply sabotage.
I was recently audited for a three-year-old return, which flummoxed my accountant because they don’t typically go back that far. He told me to send the IRS a check for $1000 as an indication that I was dealing in good faith. We both scoured my numbers, and I discovered a political donation I had written off as charity. So I owed the government $.31. My accountant sent them a large packet of paper because the IRS apparently has an aversion to paper. Three weeks later, I received from the IRS a check for $1000 and a letter that read, “Due to time and personnel constraints, we cannot audit your return at this time”. I have a fear of this happening again. But why do we allow them to put the fear of God in us?
I don’t hate the IRS - theirs is a necessary job. But I do hate what the Trump Administration is doing to/with it. The IRS is actually a place where use of AI would make a lot of sense - to prepare everybody’s tax returns based on W2 and 1099 info, so that humans could work on the difficult cases of wealthy tax dodgers.
Maybe this is one of the things that Trump introduces that can actually be used for a better purpose once honest, non-MAGA, governance returns. Sort of like how Orbon may have been undone by his own gaming of the system.
The IRS had a nice e-file app last year, big beautiful bill said they had to uninstall and fire the programmers. Trump taking money from h&r block bastard
It’s already impossible to talk to a person at the IRS. My friend is handling her father’s estate and found issues with several of his past tax returns resulting in the IRS owing the estate more than $200k. She got a tax attorney and started contacting them over a year ago. Her attorney has gone through various letters and other standard procedures and they will not ever respond in any way. If he requests a callback and gets one there’s a bot on the other end. The state is sending nastygrams about why the estate can’t be closed out after so long, because they can’t close it until these tax returns are resolved and refunded. If we’re required to pay taxes, the entity administrating them must be functional - this is simply sabotage.
I have used my congressman's constituent services staff for this; perhaps they can help you get out of IRS hell.
I was recently audited for a three-year-old return, which flummoxed my accountant because they don’t typically go back that far. He told me to send the IRS a check for $1000 as an indication that I was dealing in good faith. We both scoured my numbers, and I discovered a political donation I had written off as charity. So I owed the government $.31. My accountant sent them a large packet of paper because the IRS apparently has an aversion to paper. Three weeks later, I received from the IRS a check for $1000 and a letter that read, “Due to time and personnel constraints, we cannot audit your return at this time”. I have a fear of this happening again. But why do we allow them to put the fear of God in us?
ugh
I don’t hate the IRS - theirs is a necessary job. But I do hate what the Trump Administration is doing to/with it. The IRS is actually a place where use of AI would make a lot of sense - to prepare everybody’s tax returns based on W2 and 1099 info, so that humans could work on the difficult cases of wealthy tax dodgers.
Maybe this is one of the things that Trump introduces that can actually be used for a better purpose once honest, non-MAGA, governance returns. Sort of like how Orbon may have been undone by his own gaming of the system.
Palintir evil
The IRS had a nice e-file app last year, big beautiful bill said they had to uninstall and fire the programmers. Trump taking money from h&r block bastard
My tax return is being “held for a manual review,” according to what my accountant just informed me the other day. So now I sit and wait for my money.
Someone else I know, who’s waiting on just a $3k return, also got pulled for this same manual review.
I wonder if this could be that? I don’t believe these are audits, but still…